Hydro One Mobile vs GEA FarmView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hydro One Mobile
Manage your electricity service and stay informed about power outages. View your bills, account balance, and usage details. Access a real-time outage map with estimated restoration times and affected customer numbers.
- View bills and account balance
- Sign up for paperless billing
- Sign up for SMS notifications
- View usage details
- Real-time power outage map
- Outage restoration estimates
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We work hard to ensure that Hydro One customers have access to the information they need when they need it. The NEW Hydro One mobile application makes it easy for customers to manage their Hydro One service and get the latest information about power outages in your area. NEW – Customers can now access myAccount self-service within the app! Enabling Hydro One customers to: • View their bill and account balance • Sign up for paperless billing • Sign up for SMS notifications • View ‘time of use’ usage details and more! Power Outage Map Our power outage map lets you know if there is a power outage at home or the cottage. It is updated every 10 minutes with detailed outage information, including: • Number of customers affected • Estimated restoration time • Cause of the outage (if known) • Repair crew status The Outage Maps use colour-coded symbols to display the number of customers without service and their locations. Hydro One recognizes that this is crucial information for our customers. Now you can access it on the go.
GEA FarmView
Monitor your automatic milking system's performance and receive real-time alerts. This software solution provides a comprehensive overview of your system's health, enabling early detection of issues and quick remote access for troubleshooting. Ensure your investment is protected with daily data backups and intelligent warning systems.
- Condition monitoring of automatic milking systems
- Performance analysis (milk yield, duration, workload)
- Daily data backups
- Live view of milking process
- Intelligent warning system with push notifications
- Remote access to system and herd management PCs
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Protect your investment of the milking system with a modern software solution for condition monitoring of your automatic milking system. Additionally to the web application, you will have a complete overview about your system’s performance with the mobile apps at any time and from everywhere. Receive all the benefits of FarmView by signing a service contract with your dealership. Performance analysis: Milk yield, milking duration, attachment performance, work load of your system and many other parameters can be analyzed per box or per system. That way negative tendencies will be recognized in time and down times can be prevented. Daily data backup: FarmView provides daily backups of your herd management software, so that in case of a PC breakdown the latest data will always be available. Live view of the milking process: In times of automation in which a steady presence during the milking process is not required, you will get a holistic overview about the current milking process. Intelligent warning system You will receive all system alarms per push message and/or e-mail to your smartphone. You can also customize your own warnings for the system parameters that are most important to you. Quick reaction times due to remote access: Through FarmView you will able to remote access your system PC or herd management PC. That way, you can access your data from anywhere to monitor or review your operation. As well, your dealer technician can get quick access to your data and can support you quickly in case of an emergency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GEA FarmView at 5.0 against Hydro One Mobile's 3.0. GEA FarmView also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Hydro One Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (11% vs 0%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GEA FarmView holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 11% of Hydro One Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of GEA FarmView's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hydro One Mobile ships an update every 7 months, GEA FarmView every 13 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Hydro One Mobile | GEA FarmView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hydro One Incorporated | GEA Farm Technologies GmbH |
Customer experience
Hydro One Mobile
GEA FarmView
Bugs and requests
Hydro One Mobile
Reported bugs
21 issues- Login screen freezes
- In-app messages show 'unsupported browser'
- View bill function stopped working
- Login issues on iPad
- Blank page on login
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- Stuck spinning after login
- App keeps notifying an update is available when none exists
- Fails to get data from Hydro One
- Reporting outages gives an error
- Map shows almost no outages
- Signs out every time you try to go back to the main menu
- Consistently have trouble logging in
- Poor connectivity
- Can never log in anymore, takes forever
- Impossible to log in
- App does not login, fails registration, password change
- Extremely slow when it does work
- Loading account, nothing shows up
- Login is glitchy
- Clicking done to go back logs you out
- Auto logs the user out when clicking 'done' after viewing the current bill in PDF format
Requested features
15 requests- Invest in a proper app focused on usage and billing
- Add outage notifications
- Add a widget for power status
- Add face recognition for logging in
- Add account access and user-friendly displays
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- Add real-time updates
- Add billing support integration
- Add personal usage information
- Add outage alerts/notifications
- Add usage details
- Allow users to remain signed in
- Allow viewing usage & bills without re-entering info
- Add option to print bill
- Add face recognition or thumb print login
- Fix auto-logout when viewing PDF
GEA FarmView
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hydro One Mobile
No in-app purchases
GEA FarmView
No in-app purchases









